I've had a lot of mixed reviews with this one! Anyway, here are some highlights:
Three people worked on this font--myself, Frank Smith, and James Stirling.
There are plenty of alternates characters, including replacements for the lovingly classic lowercase h, m and n. This was even suggested right here on this site.
It's for sale on Myfonts if you feel guilty and would actually like to pay us when you make a fortune off this thing-!!! Ha!!!
The PDF spec book is very handy to find your way thru the alternate range.
It has over 8,000 kerned pairs-!!!
Have fun with it. Please report back with any glitches. You are now all my own personal playtesters.
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the fire hydrant fell over and smashed the right side of the lowercase h, m and n-!!!!
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Here's how I've been using Eccentric French:
This is 100% hand painted, so it may have a minor variation or two from the "official" Eccentric French font.
I designed this very contemporary restaurant group's logo and this hundred year old font gave it just what it needed.
Same goes for their soup sign.
It's great for camp signs, too. All signs considered, Eccentric French is in my top 30 fonts.
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Thanks Michael... I'll se if I can give it a try on a future project.
-gampa dan
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aaahh, that explains the backwards slope on them, then!!!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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ALREADY COPIED, PASTED & HEADING FOR MY GALLERY-!!!!
thanx!!!!
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A gentle bump, so everyone gets a shot at this.
-------------------- Michael Gene Adkins The Fontry 1576 S Hwy 59 Watts OK 74964 Posts: 845 | From: Watts, OK USA | Registered: Jun 1999
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Thanks Michael, and thanks as well for your support of Letterville.
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I bought a load of fonts from www.thefontry.com Wonderful stuff. I use them all the time. Now I have another one to add.. Thank you.
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one final bump before we retire the freebie link next week-!!!
thanx!!!
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I really love this font. I used it when recreating my logo, thanks a lot! I did modify the swoop on the "N" in signs just to make it a little different.
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I just "stole" your layout for the gallery section of the Eccentric page I'll be adding to my website!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
Thanx!!!
We have Frank Smith to thank for an awesome uppercase S. (I'm also really fond of that swoopy number 2-!!!!)
That was pretty clever to modify the N to match the I-!!!
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